Largest postal network in the world with over 1, 55,015 post offices.

The floating post office in Dal Lake, Srinagar, was inaugurated in August 2011.

2011 Kumbh Mela gathering visible from space (over 75 million pilgrims)

The wettest inhabited place in the world (Mawsynram, Meghalaya. Also Cherrapunji)

Bandra Worli Sealink has steel wires equal to the earth's circumference

Weighs as much as 50,000 African elephants. Engineering and architectural marvel.

The highest cricket ground in the world (Altitude : 2,444 meters, Chail : Himachal Pradesh)

Shampooing is an Indian concept (Sanskrit word champu, which means to massage)

Water on the moon was discovered by India

India has a spa just for elephants (Punnathoor Cotta Elephant Yard Rejuvenation Centre)

Largest number of vegetarians in the world (Around 20-40% of Indians are vegetarians)

The world's largest producer of milk (over 132.4m tonnes in 2014)

The first country to consume sugar

The human calculator (Shakuntla Devi She answered 7,686,369,774,870 × 2,465,099,745,779 correctly within 28 seconds)

Rabindranath Tagore wrote the national anthems for India as well as Bangladesh

Diamonds were first mined in India

Polling station for lone voter (Mahant Bharatdas Darshandas)in the middle of Gir Forest

Snakes and Ladders originated in India  (Earlier known as Moksha Patamu

Before 1996, the city was called 'Thana', the British spelling of the city, until it was replaced with the more-local name.

Thane was the terminus for the first ever passenger train in Asia. On 16 April 1853, the passenger train service was inaugurated between Bori Bunder (Bombay) and Thane

A copper plate dating to AD 1078 was discovered near the foundations of Thane Fort in 1787

Lake city
Thane was known for its lakes and CSRidentity.com wants Thane to be the ocean point of knowledge of Health Information in the world.
Lakes in Thane
Ambe Ghosale Lake , Balkumb Lake , Brahamala Lake
Burbank Lake , Datiwali Lake , Dawala Lake
Desai Lake , Devasar Lake, Diaghar Lake ,
Diva Lake , Gokul Nagar Lake , Hariyali Lake
Jail Lake , Jogila Lake, Kacharali Lake
Kalwa Lake , Kasar-Wadavali Lake , Kausa Lake
Kavesar Lake, Khardi Lake , Kharegaon Lake
Khidkali Lake , Kolbad Lake , Kolshet Lake
Makhamali Talav (Lake) , Masunda Lake (Talao Pali)
Naar Lake Naar , Phadakepada Lake, Railadevi Lake
Rewale Lake , Shill Lake, Siddheshwar Lake
Upvan Lake

Notable people
Thane is known for politics and political greats. But we do not cover the names of these greats despite of the fact that the MP of Thane (Shri Rajan Vichareji is batchmate of founder), former MP of Thane (Late Prakash Paranjape, whose Delhi Bunglow founder stayed in Delhi when his international NGOs website was launched by US Ambassador) or Former MP (Rajya Sabha MP, Shri Dr Vinay Sahastrabuddhe is known to founder because founder had taken sessions in his Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini)

Malaika Arora – Bollywood actress and dancer
Amrita Arora – Bollywood actress
Hruta Durgule – Indian television actress
Poorva Gokhale – Indian television actress
Suhas Joshi – Indian film and television actress
Umesh Kamat – Indian film and television actor
Kavita Lad – Indian television and film actress
Prajakta Koli – Indian Youtuber
Priya Marathe – Indian television actress
Diana Pinto – Miss India America 2009
Prithvi Shaw – Indian cricketer
Laxmi Narayan Tripathi – Indian LGBT Activist